Seven has two particular quirks which make this sort of post difficult: 1. the way her mind categorizes things, and 2. social anxiety disorder.
1. I don't have single 'favorites'. I have tiers in which the things I like are sorted into. So, I don't have one 'favorite' - I have a whole genre of 'favorites'.
The other thing about having mental tiers is that there is a different tier for each genre of music. So I don't have 'favorite' songs from all music - I have to be specific about which genre it is my 'favorite' in.
2. If you don't know anything about social anxiety disorder, go read about it here.
One of the areas in which social anxiety disorder affects me is listening to music when other people can hear. Often, if there is a time coming when I will be choosing the music to listen to with someone else, I will have to make a new playlist/cd specifically for that occasion.
I cannot play a song with lyrics in front of someone, unless I have observed them to listen to the same song on their own time. I don't understand lyrics myself, so I am clueless as to how someone else will interpret them.
This is why several of my playlists are labelled 'safe' or 'S'. Yeah, it's dangerous to play music... social anxiety disorder is ridiculous. If you don't have it, be grateful.
Thanks for the link Seven. I found it helpful. I might even have a touch of it myself: ie, reading over the situations they listed their left me feeling stressed out and sick. IE: talking on the phone to anyone except those closest to me stresses me out and I usually have to pace for a while before I make the call running over and over what I am going to say. Then afterwards I go over and over what I said and I worry about what they thought, etc.
ReplyDeleteI am curious to know more about the cognitive behavioral therapy they talked about. Do you know anything about it?
I'm interested to know more about the lyrics thing. Is it because of the poetic nature of songs (in which interpretation is left up to the listener) that you find the lyrics hard to understand? Or that you literally can't understand what they're saying because you're focused on listening to the musical patterns? Just trying to understand!
ReplyDeleteOne, your comments are so interesting & thought-provoking for me that I don't think a simple comment here would do them justice. I'm going to go make a new post so I can answer them.
ReplyDeleteIt's posted now. In case you have trouble finding it, here's a link:
ReplyDeletehttp://jmfsdf.blogspot.com/2011/06/sevens-responses-to-ones-comments.html